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• Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income?

  Sun Jun 8, 2008
  • I'm baffled by this line of discussion. Whether McCain was the senior officer giving the order to refuse repatriation or if he was just another officer following that order, where is the dishonor?

• Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income?

  Sun Jun 8, 2008
  • Andimia, if you were captured and tortured for six years and then released, at what income level do you feel your compensation (established by law and applied to all veterans) should end?

• Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income?

  Sun Jun 8, 2008
  • Suppose FDR had been in service in WWI instead of incurring his disability through polio. Would he have been regarded as incompetent to serve as president based on that disability?

• Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income?

  Sun Jun 8, 2008
  • I can't speak to McCain's alleged "too generous" comment as I did not read that. However, I do know as a veteran many times the Democrats have been able to block veterans' benefits by adding on so called "poison pill" amendments to the DAB causing fiscally responsible members to vote against it.

• Minn. review: Charter school doesn't teach Islam

  Mon May 19, 2008
  • "We are not a religious school..." It seems fair to take him at his word. After all, charter schools are government funded public schools and religions -- at least the two other major religions -- are not tolerated.

• Religion in the news

  Fri Jun 6, 2008
  • As I have been going through the process of helping my son get the funding he needs to go to college, one of the things I've learned to respect is the school's passion for students and their desire to do whatever they can to help make sure the students they accept succeed.

• Christian leaders meet privately with Obama

  Tue Jun 10, 2008
  • Bishop Jakes, and anyone who lived through the '60s has every reason to be proud of our nation's readiness to nominate an African-American to the highest office in the land.

• Veepstakes: Help choose McCain's running mate

  Wed May 28, 2008
  • Hooah!, Bill. I'm retired army and I agree with much of your sentiment. While it may be true that most African-Americans voted for Obama in the Democratic primary because he's black, they would vote for any Democrat in about the same numbers in the general election regardless of race.

• Veepstakes: Help choose McCain's running mate

  Wed May 28, 2008
  • I agree. It's almost like someone at MSNBC already "knows" how the vote will go :-)

• Veepstakes: Help choose McCain's running mate

  Wed May 28, 2008
  • I think they discussed this in the video that goes with this article (or maybe on the CQ version of this poll) and the pundits agreed that Powell might be perceived as a racial pick.